It would be a very long blog post if I told you all of the games we made up. One thing we did quite often was build forts, either inside or in our woods. We would gather up as many blankets and chairs as possible and make ourselves a cozy little house somewhere in the basement. Or if we built our fort outdoors, we would muster as many sticks as we could, and even tried to “transplant” some of the wild grass growing in our woods into the “yard” of our homemade forts.
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| We also loved to put on concerts for our stuffed animals. We would patiently set them all up on block bleachers and chairs and then one of us would play music on the stereo for all the gathered animals. |
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| Quite often, Mom would come down to the basement after we had disappeared for a few hours, only to find a Barbie and Ken neighborhood under construction. J We loved to build them houses on top of our tables, complete with furniture, food, and bedding. Sometimes we played Barbie games during the pioneer era. In the photo above, I had built a “General Store” filled with bolts of cloth, clothing, shoes, and wood for purchase. |
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| One of our most elaborate set-ups involved the building of the White House. You can see the front entry way, the kitchen to the left, the parlor in the middle, the bathroom (enclosed by colored bricks), the living room, and some of the bedrooms. |
We even went so far as to create a genealogy for all of our Barbies and how they were related to each other. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. We had so much more fun making up games than we ever would have playing video games and watching TV like so many other kids our age do.
*What sort of “pretend” games did you like to play? What kind of things did you like to build as a child? Please leave us a comment with your story!*
4 comments:
at our old house in Flint, we were really into tree houses and forts. My dad kept a supply of boards and planks around: all shapes, colors and sizes. We would get really into it, spending days on one fort, building it, and acting as scavengers in our big shed we had, searching for all sorts of "luxurious" furnishings such as old carpet, a cracked bowl, or if we were lucky, some paint. We each had businesses ( mud pies or backyard treasures for sale) to make money (dandelions), and supplied our "pantries" with all sorts of good things to eat: wild garlic cloves that we dug up and sprayed off with the hose, and all sorts of small produce from mom's garden. We were sad to leave our "community" behind when we moved.
That sounds like so much fun, Lydia! I would have loved to have seen your little "community." That would have been a game my siblings and I would have loved. Especially the wild food and produce from the garden stocking our "pantries!"
~Bianca
Libby liked to play bakery. Once, we cleaned the milk house all up and she displayed her goodies along a shelf. She even made a sign on the door announcing her bakery hours. We had a hay customer who saw the sign and genuinely wanted to buy from her. Too bad her special for the day was whoopie pies made from mud and queen-annes-lace filling.
I remember hearing about Libby's bakery, Betsy. Some of the things she and Naomi made were quite realistic-looking. I would have loved playing that game!
~Bianca
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